Ref: Google search for "African Slave Reparations"

• Darkest Africa: Mauritanian Leader Calls for Abolishment of Slavery
  The military ruler of Mauritania called Friday for his countrymen to stamp out slavery — a rare official acknowledgment that the long-outlawed practice continues in the northwest African country. "Yes to the abolition of slavery, of all slaveries," said Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, adding that he will be the first to back anti-slavery groups working in Mauritania. Mauritania outlawed slavery in 1981, and the official government stance has been that the practice no longer exists within its borders. Slavery in the Muslim country has traditionally followed ethnic lines, with lighter-skinned maurs owning darker Africans and ownership passing down through generations. - (Africa)  
  

• Judge Tosses Bid to Revive Black Slave Reparation Suit
  CHICAGO -- An effort by slave descendants to gain reparations from corporations that allegedly benefited from slavery was dismissed Wednesday by a federal judge. Judge Charles R. Norgle characterized the issue as basically political, and said it should be decided by the legislative or executive branch. He added that the plaintiffs have failed to show a link between themselves and the 17 corporations named as defendants, and that the statute of limitations rules out damages for wrongs committed before slavery was abolished in 1868.

• Niger court frees slave activists
  Ilguilas Weila and Alassane Biga deny trying to falsely elicit money from foreign donors.
  
  
• The Shackles of Slavery in Niger
  In the western African nation of Niger, one of the poorest countries on Earth, despite being prohibited, slavery is rooted in the traditional customs and the culture of the country. There are more than 800,000 slaves in Niger

• Niger cancels 'free-slave' event
• Niger begins enforcement of ban on slavery - (Svejk)

• African Migrant Woman Gets 17 Years for Enslaving Girl
  GREENBELT, Md. -- A Maryland woman was sentenced Monday to more than 17 years in prison for forcing a Cameroonian girl to work as a domestic servant for no pay, beginning when the girl was 11. Theresa Mubang, herself originally from Cameroon, was convicted by a federal jury in November of involuntary servitude and harboring an alien.

• Researchers Explore Southern Slave Site - find 'treasures'
  Sifting through dirt from the floor of a small cabin made from oyster shells and sand, archaeologist Dan Elliott is finding unexpected treasures.The finds include a small lice comb of carved bone and shards of an Indian pottery. Bones from fish, birds, pigs and alligators hint at what slaves may have eaten.

Blacks And The Politics Of Racial Extortion - Will It Work Forever? - by Fred Reed

Oh, Lord. I'd pull my hair out, if I had more.

On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites, pay reparations to blacks. It's because of slavery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill. Huh? I feel like saying, Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be patient. You want free money because of slavery, right? I don't blame you. I'd like free money too.

Tell you what. I believe in justice. I'll give you a million dollars for every slave I own, and another million for every year you were a slave. Fair enough? But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose I have? In round numbers, I mean. Say to the nearest dozen. And how long were you a slave? - (more at link)

• African migrant couple indicted for importing African girl to be their slave
  The indictment accuses Joseph and Evelyn Djoumessi of bringing the then-14-year-old girl from Cameroon in 1996 and using her as an unpaid domestic servant for more than three years.
• Group Reports 880 Sudanese Slaves Freed

• Tickets for Back-to-Africa - (Crosstarlist)
  "Cable television-producer Rachael Dawson has embarked on a documentary about "reparations," the notion that Negroes should be paid because their ancestors had been slaves. The New York Times recently interviewed Richard Barrett on "reparations," in which Barrett stated that the focus should be on West Africa, where Negroes had been enslaved by their own people. "Let the descendants of the tribal chieftains pay the descendants of their own slaves," quipped Barrett. The newspaper killed the story..."

• Slave Reparations Boosters to Rally
  
  
• Will the president free the slaves? - by Nat Hentoff
  At last, an international commission — led by the United States — has been created to investigate slavery in Sudan.
  
  
• 'Millions' of Blacks to Rally in DC for Reparations - (VB link)

• City wants slave insurers to come clean
  For an average $11-a-year policy, a slaveholder received $500 when a slave died

Slavery a growing problem in Sudan

Slavery reparation scam investigation
A Georgia man is the focus of a federal investigation into whether he scammed African Americans out of money. He charges $150 to help you file a slave reparation claim he says could get you a $50,000 tax refund. IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti says "there is no provision whatsoever in the tax law that provides for any kind of refunds or reparation to African Americans for slavery. - (reader link)

• Second Slave Reparations Suit Filed
  NEWARK, N.J. — An insurance company, a railroad and a bank are the latest defendants named in a lawsuit that seeks slave reparations. A New Jersey man has filed suit against the three companies asserting that they benefited from slave labor. - (NNN-reparations)
  
  
• California Report Names Slaves, Owners and Insurers
  

• The Reparations Racket - by John H. McWhorter
  America has already made amends for slavery.

• Federal Lawsuit Seeks Reparations for Slavery From Three Companies

Slavery suits may spread beyond Aetna, Fleet says Holocaust lawyer Ed Fagan
Ed Fagan, a Livingston, N.J., lawyer who is part of a team representing the plaintiffs, wouldn't name the seven additional companies but said they were in the banking, transportation, insurance and textile industries. The lawsuits, filed in New York, claim that as many as 1,000 corporations may have profited from slavery and sometimes helped it to continue in the United States from 1619 to 1865. The third company named Tuesday was railroad giant CSX, based in Virginia.

• Ref: Holocaust Lawyer Ed Fagan - (Stormfornt forum reader link) - (NNN-slave-reparations)

• "Reparations" Sought From U.S. Firms for Slavery by black extortionists
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three large U.S. companies were named in a lawsuit on Tuesday filed on behalf of black Americans descended from slaves, the first-ever class action seeking reparations from firms for profiting from slavery.

• U.S.-led team to investigate slavery allegations in Sudan
• Massachusetts Abolitionist Liz Walker, the Boston television news anchor who is involved with a group that buys freedom for enslaved Sudanese, defended the practice
  - critics say this just encourages the market - (NNN-reparations)
• USA: Activists Challenge Corporations They Say Are Tied to Slavery - (reader link)
• Apology for slavery will perpetuate racism - by Robert W. Tracinski - (reader link)
• Fake Sudan Slaves Con Aid Agencies - (antiwar.com)

• Corporations challenged by reparations activists
  
• [Reader re-recommends] "Overlawyered.com"
  USA Today on slavery reparations. The story comes close to acknowledging that the legal basis for the impending lawsuits is so shoddy that their only real settlement value comes from the hope of inflicting bad publicity on companies and other defendants willing to pay to make it stop. So what does Gannett/USA Today, itself a likely defendant, do? It awards the lawyers another ton of publicity against named companies. Makes sense, right? Note that Willie Gary now claims the lawyers' "work is likely to be done pro bono", which is a very different story from what he said not too long ago (see Dec. 22, 2000) (James Cox, "Activists challenge corporations that they say are tied to slavery; Team of legal and academic stars pushes for apologies and reparations", USA Today, Feb. 21). (DURABLE LINK) - (NNN-reparations)
  

• Why a National Slavery Museum is a Bad Idea
  By Jared Taylor, Special to BET.com -- Promoters of a national slavery museum claim it would heal the wounds of the past. In fact, it would cause wounds in the present because continuing emphasis on slavery more than 135 years after emancipation has two purposes: to offer Blacks a ready excuse for failure and to make Whites feel guilty. - (reader links)

• From Kurt Saxon's Website
• The Slave Trade In The Congo Basin
• Part 2 The Congo Basin Slave Trade
• Part 3 The Congo Basin Slave Trade

• The Attitudes Of Blacks - by Fred Reed
  "...This explains the vast chasm that yawns between so many whites and the black mainstream. When blacks demand reparations, a white, acting in the European tradition of logic and analysis, is likely to point that he has never owned slaves, that blacks under 135 years of age have never been slaves, that he supported the civil rights movement of the Sixties, that his ancestors arrived in the US in 1923 from Poland..."

• link to this page from "Welcome to REalities Reparations History Archives"

• Africa's new bloodstained gems
  Children dig for tanzanite, coltan in dangerous mines
  (By Anthony C. LoBaido - © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com - reader link)
  While human slavery is a fact of life in African nations like Mauritania and Sudan, Tanzania now is emerging as the latest center for the exploitation of child labor.

• [Reader observes]
  "Mauritania has slavery, activists tell audiences
  "And we were taught that White people were the only ones who ever had slaves. Yea, right. And here it is in the 21st century in black Africa".

• [Author of book plugs his book]
  " Please consider this novel and the companion Web site.:
  Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Manu Herbstein"

• Canadian company sued for abetting Sudan genocide - by Jon Dougherty
  "one of the 20 Most Influential Black Conservatives in America"
  Anti-slavery group files $1 billion suit against Canadian firm - (WND reader link)

• Should Taxpayers Make Reparations For The Past Enslavement Of African-Americans?
• Cartoon: reparations
• Racism conference rocked by new Negro slave-trade extortion demands

• Abolishing America (contd.): Reparations As Power Grab - By Sam Francis

• Samuel Francis On-line Topic:
  Outrage as Black Reporter Says "Thank God For Slavery"
  

Africans angry at refusal to debate slavery reparations

From website "NEGRO HALL OF SHAME"
THE NEGRO HALL OF SHAME IS WHERE YOU WILL FIND THOSE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO HAVE, BY THEIR DEEDS AND/OR WORDS, BROUGHT DISGRACE TO US. WE ARE IN A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, AND THOSE AMONG US WHO ARE DETERMINED TO AID AND ABET THE EUROPEAN IN THEIR GOAL OF OUR GENOCIDE WILL BE EXPOSED.
Reverend William L. Blanks enters the Hall of Shame of his own volition due to his anti-African stance on Reparations. Welcome into the Hall of Shame Reverend Blanks; we're sure you'll feel right at home among your brethren Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, Reverend Vernel Sims, and Reverend Herb Lusk.
Ref: Authorities: Reverend Herb Lusk Wanted Witnesses 'Taken Out'
Reverend Allegedly Offered $30,000 For Murder Contracts

• African Migrant Enslavement and rape trial nears finish
  Cameroon teen-ager accuses Farmington Hills pair of abuse FARMINGTON HILLS -- After listening to nearly three weeks of testimony on allegations of rape, enslavement and child abuse, an Oakland County jury is expected to begin deliberations today in a case that could put a Farmington Hills couple in prison for life. Defense attorneys for Joseph and Evelyn Djoumessi, who are charged with nine counts of kidnapping, conspiring to kidnap and child abuse

• Senegal's leader blasts idea of slave reparations
• US blacks weigh reparations WASHINGTON: Nearly four decades after the end of official segregation, racial divisions persist in the United States and the question of reparations for descendants of slaves is gaining currency in the black community.

• Michigan: African migrant couple charged with child slavery and child rape
  A 14-year-old girl traveled to the United States from her native Cameroon in 1996 to live with a couple in hopes of education and a better life, but prosecutors say the girl's trip to Michigan turned into a nightmare.
  There was no school and no opportunity, only years of involuntary servitude, occasional beatings and even sexual assault, they said.
  The couple accused of mistreating the girl, Joseph and Evelyn Djoumessi, were to go on trial in Oakland County Circuit Court on felony charges. Jury selection was set to begin Friday. Joseph Djoumessi, 44, is charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, third-degree criminal sexual conduct and child abuse. His wife, 36, is charged with kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap.
• Joseph Djoumessi and Evelyn Neba came to the United States from Cameroon in 1986
  on immigration visas.

• Senegal's Wade Says Slavery Reparations 'Absurd'
  DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Saturday stepped into a diplomatic row ahead of a United Nations conference on racism, saying the idea of reparations for the African slave trade was absurd. He noted there were African peoples who had sold slaves. ``Should they also pay up?'' he asked. ``Some of us have forbears who may not have sold slaves, but had slaves in their armies. I am talking about my own ancestors, who had 10,000 soldiers at that time, of which two thirds were slaves.'' (reader link)

• Conference to discuss reparations for slavery (reader)
  The issue of reparations for slavery will be on the agenda of the UN World Conference Against Racism at the end of this month, the conference's host nation, South Africa, said on Monday.

• Culture Briefs: (reader link)
  Excerpts and quotes from the cultural war of words in publications around the nation.
  Reparations nightmare
  "How big a reparations check should Tiger Woods get?
  "Applauded as one of America's most prominent black athletes, the champion golfer actually is only part black. He coined the word 'Cablinasian' to reflect his Caucasian, black, American Indian and Thai heritage.
  "As someone who is 25 percent black, Woods arguably deserves — at most — one quarter of any sum Washington might deem sufficient to compensate a typical black American for the allegedly lingering effects of slavery. ...
  
  
• Ref: ARAB MASTERS—BLACK SLAVES by Samuel Cotton

• Fred Plops For Reparations - Sells Out To Johnny Cochran
  I see by the papers in the Yankee Capital that Johnny Cochran, and of course Jesse and Al, are wheezing and blowing like a county-fair calliope with a leaky boiler. They always are. This time it was about the need to pay reparations for the ravages trala of slavery. It got me to thinking. I hate it when that happens... (rEB bIKER link)

• U.S. Cautions It May Boycott Racism Conference
  if U.N. organizers plan to keep the topics of reparations for African slavery and a denouncement of Zionism on the agenda. (AheadNews.com)

• Call for slave reparations Nairobi - New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for reparations to be paid to people who suffer from the lingering effects of slavery, with special focus on the United States, South Africa and Brazil.

• The Future Of ..."Reparations"
  During the recent flood disaster in Mozambique, I became curious as to what the monied Afro-Americans in this country are doing to assist African nations in crisis. "Surely," I thought, "there must be some movement afoot among Afro-Americans to form a significant help organization for Africa, a 'Black Cross' perhaps. Surely there's a movement to alleviate the suffering of Mother Africa, whose history over the past two centuries is a sorrowful tale of ruthless exploitation and devastation.

• -Boston group says it bought liberty for thousands in Sudan Three Boston ministers, Harvard student, and prominent local TV personality plan to announce today that they have purchased freedom for nearly 4,000 Sudanese women and children